Edited by William Thynne.

Mostly in verse.

Includes a number of spurious works.

Printer's name from STC.

This is a variant of the other 1542 edition, which bears the imprint: "Prynted by Wyllyam Bonham."

Signatures: Áþ B-2Ýœ 2A-2T́œ

Title within woodcut, architectural border; initials.

"The Caunterbury tales", "The romau[n]t of the rose" and "Boetius de consolatione philosophie" each have separate title pages; foliation and register are continuous.

Leaves 371, 372 misnumbered ccclxxx, ccclxxxxii.

STC (2nd ed.) 5070

ESTC S107200

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early calfskin panelled in blind. The spine is rebacked with a red leather label. The armorial bookplate of Lionell Copley, Esq. (here conjectured to be a descendent of the first Royal Governor of Maryland) is present on the front pastedown. The first leaf (title page) and the last leaf contain numerous, ca. 16th-century inscriptions. On the title page, the name "Thomas" is inscribed just above the privilege and the name of the printer is copied, in a Gothic hand, along the fore-edge. On the recto of the final leaf, there are various tracings and illegible pen marks. On the verso of the same leaf is a lengthy passage, in a secretary hand, under which appears the inscription "This boke does be long unto John Abbotte [Allotte?], 1583. The name "Thomas" is again inscribed beneath that.